Member Since: Feb. 22, 2009

John Ivor


Books

Run Maggie Run    by John Ivor
Price: $3.99 USD. 62410 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on November 15, 2009. Fiction.
A child sentenced to hang, Maggie flees 1830s Scotland and endures a violent odyssey to womanhood. An original heroine of flawed psyche, her self-taught book wisdom frequently fuels catastrophe. She joins gentryfolk sailing to create an Eden in the wilderness, promoted as a Second America. Deceit and murder predominate instead.
Eden's Deadly Shore    by John Ivor
Price: $3.99 USD. 29000 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on November 15, 2009. Fiction.
At seventeen, shopgirl Maggie meets the man of her dreams, but her dye-stained cheeks turn the dream to nightmare. This thrilling sequel to Run Maggie Run is set in a class conscious 1830s colony, where Maggie opposes its corrupt British rulers.
Java's Dream    by John Ivor
Price: $1.99 USD. 11260 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on October 31, 2009. Fiction.
Before history, humanity begins when a strange fork-legged creature challenges bestial tradition. In making this moral stand, Java and his mate risk all.
The Painted Ladies    by John Ivor
Price: $0.99 USD. 3590 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on May 25, 2009. Fiction.
The nude painting of a senior officer's wife scandalises Britain's Swan River Colony in the 1830s. Young Maggie from the bakery fears for the mild male artist, her friend, who is challenged to a duel. This is a humorous excerpt from the novel "Great Land of Dreams".
The Prize Bride    by John Ivor
Price: $0.99 USD. 2670 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on May 17, 2009. Fiction.
Marrying for money would save the career of a penurious young captain. But winning the daughter of The Wangler, an English tycoon, was a prospect to fear. Author John Ivor delights with this humorous account of bride-seeking in the early 1800s. The characters interact in an unusual, yet richly endowed, county mansion.
Captain Striver    by John Ivor
Price: $3.99 USD. 52740 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on August 12, 2008. Fiction.
Family in disgrace, a penurious young sea captain dreams of creating a British colony to replace lost America. Against him stand Admiralty, Government and the influential British East India Trading Company. Nevertheless, if only he can marry into wealth . . . Based on true events, this fictional autobiography is Book Two of ‘Strive’, dreamers of The Great Southland, published hardback in 2000
Amateur Rebel    by John Ivor
Price: $2.99 USD. 59000 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on June 28, 2008. Fiction.
Maggie, an interpreter, believes justice can’t be achieved without just rulers, so she fights corrupt despots of an 1830s British Colony. And tries not to fall in love with Jeremy, her hot-headed foolish ally. Magistrates commit murder, the natives mistake a missionary as an incarnation of the Rainbow Serpent come to evict white settlers, and Maggie could lose her head - literally!
No Kiss For A Killer    by John Ivor
Price: $2.99 USD. 42830 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on June 27, 2008. Fiction.
Skilled swordsman Jeremy Hanwell vows to avenge his father’s murder. Then he falls in love – with a woman who’ll reject him if he performs this sacred duty. Romance rides a thorny trail in an 1830s British Colony.

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